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Maintenance of shortcut keys in a mobile device

a mobile device and shortcut key technology, applied in the field of maintenance of shortcut keys, can solve the problems of limited on-board memory for storing applications, small and lightweight communication devices, and large display and navigation tools

Inactive Publication Date: 2006-06-29
NOKIA TECHNOLOGLES OY
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[0006] An exemplary embodiment of the invention relates to a method for maintaining a shortcut key to an application accessible at a device. The method includes, but is not limited to, assigning a first application to a shortcut key at a device, wherein the shortcut key at the device is a button on the device; storing an identifier of the first application to a first file at the device; determining

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However, communication devices generally are small and lightweight because the desire is for an easily portable device.
As a result, the display and the navigation tools are small and generally more tedious to use.
Mobile devices have limited on-board memory for storing applications.
However, this requires memory that may never be used again if the MMC is never used again.
Additionally, such an implementation does not recognize that the same application may be used from different MMCs wasting additional memory resources.
As a further limitation, neither MMC may be inserted in the device resulting in a shortcut key that does not function.

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[0016] With reference to FIG. 1, the system 10 is comprised of multiple communication devices that can communicate through a network. The system 10 may comprise any combination of wired or wireless networks including, but not limited to, a cellular telephone network, a wireless Local Area Network (LAN), a Bluetooth personal area network, an Ethernet LAN, a token ring LAN, a wide area network, the Internet, etc. The system 10 may include both wired and wireless communication devices. For exemplification, the system 10 shown in FIG. 1 includes a cellular telephone network 11 and the Internet 28. Connectivity to the Internet 28 may include, but is not limited to, long range wireless connections, short range wireless connections, and various wired connections including, but not limited to, telephone lines, cable lines, power lines, and the like.

[0017] The exemplary communication devices of system 10 may include, but are not limited to, a cellular telephone 12, a combination PDA and cel...

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Abstract

A device and method provide for maintenance of a shortcut key to an application accessible at the device. The method includes assigning a first application to a shortcut key at a device, wherein the shortcut key at the device is a button on the device; storing an identifier of the first application to a first file at the device; determining if the first application at the device assigned to the shortcut key remains executable at the device; if the first application is determined to be unexecutable at the device, assigning a second application to the shortcut key at the device, wherein an identifier of the second application is stored in a second file at the device, and further wherein the second application is executable at the device.

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FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0001] The present invention is related to the maintenance of shortcut keys. More specifically, the present invention relates to the maintenance of application shortcut keys in a mobile device. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] In addition to processing voice calls from traditional wired and wireless phones, mobile communication devices now also communicate with other types of devices such as computers of all form factors, Personal Data Assistants (PDAs) or handheld PCs, Integrated Messaging Devices (IMD), etc. Additionally, communication devices have merged the capabilities of cellular telephones, PDAs, IMDs, and computing devices and now provide increasingly sophisticated applications. These applications provide, for example, advanced telephony, various messaging services such as e-mail, short messaging, multi-media messaging, instant messaging and presence, Internet browsers, mobile wallets, image viewing, video and image recording and viewing, etc. Thus, ...

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IPC IPC(8): G09G5/00
CPCH04M1/7258H04M2250/14H04M1/72466H04B1/40
Inventor MAKTEDAR, RISHIKESH
Owner NOKIA TECHNOLOGLES OY
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